Argun Reserve
Argun Reserve

The Argun State Historical-Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve is a reserve located in the southern part of the Chechen Republic on the territory of the Vedensky Reserve and covering the Itum-Kalin and Sharoy districts in whole, as well as partially Achkhoy-Martan, Veden and Shatoi districts. It was established on June 2, 1988 by the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. The area is 233,800 hectares. We can safely say that the Argun Reserve is an open-air museum. It includes historical and natural monuments of the Argun Gorge. Of the natural monuments on the territory of the Argun Museum-Reserve, the most remarkable is the Sheki-Hyekh cave with sulfur springs, from which a hydrogen sulfide river flows. Of the cultural and historical sites, there are about 150 tower complexes of the early and late Middle Ages, religious buildings, military and residential towers, early Muslim burials, cyclopean structures and other historical monuments. Many objects of the museum-reserve are in ruined condition.

The day before, a tour of the Argun Gorge was held, it was organized by a senior researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Architecture Ramzan Bakanaev.

Participants visited such locations as: “Gateway to Argun Gorge”, Nihaloi Falls, Ushkaloi Towers, Phakoch Museum, and the final point was the recreation complex “Veduchi”.

The tour participants were very pleased with the trip.

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